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Cake day: September 8th, 2023

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  • You truly are a dunce, this doesn’t prove your moronic “watts don’t give a shit” comment. Let me explain this to you slowly.

    Great job! Your “3 seconds of googling” solution burns ~20% of the stored energy in your battery in conversion losses. You just went from running an average DC fridge for 3-4 hours to running an average AC fridge for 2.5-3.2 hours. By the time you run to the store to get one of these, get back, get it installed, and cool the fridge down again – the milk has gone bad. Congrats.

    I never said it was impossible do convert DC to AC. You made that jump all on your own, in bad faith, because clearly, once again, you’re an overly confrontational putz.

    Sorry you live such an unfulfilling life that you do this to yourself. It’s been a good laugh for me though. Maybe read a book on the subject. Have a great day :)







  • I agree. In my opinion there are two huge dominating factors.

    First is the almost ubiquitous winner-takes-all election structure in the US, leading to the two party system. There is, bar none, no fair competition in US government at a level high enough to matter.

    Second, the lack of term limits allows certain people in certain positions to perpetuate momentum. In part this happens by hand picking successors through brute-force out funding the competition (in part due to the economic disparity that others in this thread have mentioned).






  • I’ll try to keep this to lesser known apps:

    • Catima (saves barcodes for gift cards, gym memberships, etc so you don’t have to worry about the physical card)

    • Cofi (nice timer for active guidance through coffee brewing recipes)

    • 10,000 Sentences (a language practicing app that doesn’t have a mildly threatening owl 😉)

    • OSMAnd+ Mapillary, Overlay Maps, and 3D Features (seriously, the best. I only use Google maps to get around traffic these days since, unfortunately, Magic Earth doesn’t work very well in my area)

    • Obtanium (as a gateway to lesser known software, no shipping to an app store required!)

    • RethinkDNS (an absolutely amazing piece of software that gives you fine-grained control of the domains your apps are talking to. A bit of a battery sync but it’s been a game changer for me. On my GrapheneOS setup I use it in the Google sandbox to reduce the amount of data scraping servers my Google apps can talk to)





  • My process for project identification has been:

    1. Be annoyed at ads/payment structure/whatever in some app or service
    2. Search https://alternativeto.net/ for alternatives to the thing I’m annoyed with (filtering by Open Source and my devices)
    3. Try out 1-2 of the top alternatives
    4. Settle on what service I want to run
    5. Install, route the subdomain, etc. if necessary (otherwise just access via my tailnet)

    As for how to deploy, docker / podman are great! With podman I’d recommend looking into their systemd integrations too. Incus is a neat LXC option too, meant more for longer term services (less micro service focused, good and bad).

    Hope this helps!